ORDINARIATE ORDINATIONS - A First
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    The first three priests to be ordained in the Ordinariate received the laying on of hands at 6.30pm this evening of the Solemnity of Ss. Peter and Paul at Walsingham. There were about thirty or so priests from around the US and Canada participating.

    One of the ordinands earned a degree from Nashotah House before becoming Catholic and going through St Mary's Seminary here in Houston, a stone's throw from Walsingham, and is being assigned to one of our parishes in New York.

    All readings were sung, as was everything else, including the ten paragraph prayer of ordination.

    THE ORDER OF MASS -

    ORGAN VOLUNTARY - Praeludium, in F - - - Dietrich Buxtehude
    AT THE PROCESSION - Hymn: 'Firmly I Believe and Truly' - - - Nashotah House

    THE INTROIT - Nunc scio - - - Mode III (Palmer-Burgess)
    KYRIE - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Healey Willan
    GLORIA - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Healey Willan

    PSALM XXXIV - Benedicam Dominum - - - Chant, Sir Joseph Barnby
    ALLELUYA AND VERSE - Tu es Petrus - - - Tone VI (Anglican Use Gradual)

    AT THE RITE OF ORDINATION* -
    HYMN - Veni Creator Spiritus - - - Mode VIII
    RESPONSORY - Psalm CX - Dixit Dominus - - - Richard J. Clarke


    THE NICENE CREED - - - Recto tono

    AT THE OFFERTORY -
    THE ANTIPHON - Constitues eos principes - - - Mode III (P-B)
    ANTHEM - Ubi caritas - - - Ola Gjeilo

    SANCTUS - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Healey Willan

    THE OUR FATHER - Mode VII

    AGNUS DEI - Missa de Sancta Maria Magdalena - - - Wealey Willan

    AT THE COMMUNION -
    THE ANTIPHON - Tu es Petrus - - - Mode VI (P-B)
    ANTHEM - Tu es Petrus - - - G.P. da Palestrina
    RESPONSORY - Psalm CXI: Magna opera Domini - - - Richard J. Clarke**

    AT THE DISMISSAL - Hymn: 'Praise to the Holiest in the Heights' - - - Newman
    ORGAN VOLUNTARY - Toccata, from Fifth Organ Symphony - - - Charles-Marie Widor
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    *The ordination rite is that of the OF of the Roman rite. Our priests opted deliberately, as a sign of unity with Rome, not to have our own, although we could have. I must say, the switch from our liturgical English to that of the OF Roman rite is jarring and literarily inconsistent.

    **The responsory, Magna opera Domini, (which is Bishops Lopes' motto) was commissioned for Bishop Lopes' ordination to the epsicopacy in A.D. MMXIV.
    Thanked by 2CHGiffen Kathy
  • MatthewRoth
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    I recognized the Willan, since it was sung at now–Father Erdman’s ordination to the diaconate. What a happy day for the Community of Our Lady and St. John.
  • chonakchonak
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    Is the video of the rite on-line?
  • M. Jackson Osborn
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    I don't know, Chonak.
    I'll have to look into that.
  • Caleferink
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    I thought I saw the video on the Ordinariate's Facebook page.
  • MatthewRoth
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    Yes, they livestream most major liturgies from OLW via Facebook Live which saves a copy. I wish people used Youtube instead, but YMMV.
  • Caleferink
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    I just found it on the Ordinariate's website itself: http://ordinariate.net/news/video-2017-mass-of-ordination
    Thanked by 3M. Jackson Osborn CHGiffen Casavant Organist
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